“...available people are the ones who are dangerous, because they confront us with the possibility of real intimacy.”

“only a matter of time before it broke through our fragile web of denial, forcing us to confront the truth and acknowledge who we are: two people in love – a love that nobody else could possibly understand.”

“The world is a dangerous place to live, not because of the people who are evil, but because of the people who don't do anything about it.”

“sometimes, we still need people who deprecate us, because they're the real motivator in our life, to make us stand up again.”

“As with a wound on one's own body, it is possible to develop an intimacy with the most disturbing of things”

“I always admire people who have the courage to confront the conventional wisdom - I mean, people within the system. Those of us on the outside, it's easy for us to say whatever we think, because there are no consequences to it. It's much harder to say, "I think the conventional wisdom is full of beans, and I'm not going to go along with it," when you're inside the system and exposed to the possibility of actual failure. I think the people who do this drive the world to get better, whereas the people who snipe at anybody who dares suggest that the conventional wisdom is malarkey are, in my view, gutless conspirators in the mediocrity of the universe.”